This is an analysis of the poem The Exodus that begins with:
“A Million A Decade!” Calmly and cold
The units are read by our statesmen sage;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcX dedeff fgfgaa fafaeX hahaii fjfjgg khkhaaXfcfccc afafcc lglgaa cmcmff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100011011 0101111101 101100101 100101001 111101001 10100100 0100010101 10100101 101011001 110111101 11101111 10100101 0100011111 101100011 110111101 10011111 11101101 1101001001 0100011101 011101001 1011011110 0100101101 010110111 0101111100 111111001 11001101001 11000101001 10111111001 10111001 11010101 11111001001 1000100101 111111011 110111101 10101111 11111011 111011001 111111011 11111101 11110101 11111011 01001001 1 0100011101 0101001001 011101110 010010010001 010111001 010011110 101011011 11101001 1111011011 110111101 1111001001 10010111 11100110010 111001101 11100111010 11001111 100100001 111001001 111010001 0101100101 1110011011 111110111 111011011 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ten, yet, dead, not, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words corpses, the, not, a, have are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Exodus;
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